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**Tamlin** · 11-01-2006

Yeah, I have no objection to you quoting me, either.

The Adblock problem: Adblock Plus, a Firefox extension, unobtrusively blocks ads (hence its name!) based on a customisable set of filters. One of the filters that comes with it is targetted at any object on a webpage that references a folder called "banners", because many ads store their images in folders with that name. As I said, this is customisable, so a visitor could choose to either turn off that particular filter or add your site to their "white list" in Adblock. However, that won't stop first-time visitors (using Firefox and Adblock) coming to your site and seeing a bunch of broken-image-link placeholders. Not a massive problem, but something I think you should be aware of.

11-01-2006	#11 (permalink)
Tamlin Janitor of Lunacy Join Date: May 2006 Location: Sitting in the Wishing Chair Posts: 5,425	Yeah, I have no objection to you quoting me, either. The Adblock problem: Adblock Plus, a Firefox extension, unobtrusively blocks ads (hence its name!) based on a customisable set of filters. One of the filters that comes with it is targetted at any object on a webpage that references a folder called "banners", because many ads store their images in folders with that name. As I said, this is customisable, so a visitor could choose to either turn off that particular filter or add your site to their "white list" in Adblock. However, that won't stop first-time visitors (using Firefox and Adblock) coming to your site and seeing a bunch of broken-image-link placeholders. Not a massive problem, but something I think you should be aware of. __________________ "It's just the way the operation made me"